Becoming Fiction: Reassessing Atheism in Duerrenmatt's «Stoffe»: 131 (Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature) - Image 1

£70.42

Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften Becoming Fiction: Reassessing Atheism in Duerrenmatt's «Stoffe»: 131 (Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature)

Name: Becoming Fiction: Reassessing Atheism in Duerrenmatt's "Stoffe": 131 (Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature)
Brand: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Price: 67.68 GBP
Availability: InStock

Drama

Price data last checked 61 day(s) ago - refreshing...

View at Amazon

Price History & Forecast

Last 30 days • 30 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 30 days • 2 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £68 (29 days, 96.7%)

Price range: £68 - £70

Price levels: 2 different prices over 30 days

Description

Becoming Fiction: Reassessing Atheism in Dürrenmatt’s Stoffe sets forth a clarification of the importance of Friedrich Dürrenmatt, modern Swiss dramatist, essayist, novelist and self-proclaimed atheist (1921–1990), and offers new insights into the ways in which his father’s vocation as a Protestant minister, along with Dürrenmatt’s own decision as a young man to pursue a career in writing rather than religion, shaped his world view and, in particular, made necessary a final, desperate attempt to fictionally recast his own life through revisions and amplifications of many of his earlier works when he created his final prose volume, Stoffe. Dürrenmatt devoted immense energy in his writings to wrestling with his father’s God as a way of seeking self-identity. That perceived loss of his father’s esteem became the motor behind his works. After earlier successes, the icy reception of his most ambitious play, Der Mitmacher, in 1976, left the author in such a frustrated state of disappointment that he reached a point of linguistic breakdown. This book contends that Dürrenmatt’s loss of voice forced the author to a new kind of writing: a ‘re-turn’ home. Becoming Fiction explores the damage caused by Dürrenmatt’s inability to express his most central beliefs through the outdated, deceptive modes of linguistic thought and tradition. Consequently, the book argues, at the point of that breakdown of rigid linguistic and theological concepts, a space was forced open, and the Stoffe reveal a Divine presence.

Product Specifications

Brand: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1433135264
Category: Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > Drama
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 31 January 2017
Listed Since: 29 September 2016

Barcode

No barcode data available

Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften Becoming Fiction: Reassessing Atheism in Duerrenmatt's «Stoffe»: 131 (Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature)

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Philip Roth: American Pastoral, the Human Stain, the Plot Against America (Continuum Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction)

Autorentext und Inszenierungstext: Untersuchungen Zu Sprachlichen Transformationen Bei Bearbeitungen Von Theatertexten: 303 (Beihefte Zur Zeitschrift Für Romanische Philologie)

Causality, Meaningful Complexity and Embodied Cognition: 46 (Theory and Decision Library A:, 46)

Mallarmesis: Mythopoetique de Stephane Mallarme: 57 (Francophone Cultures & Literatures)

Literary Mischief: Sakaguchi Ango, Culture, and the War (New Studies in Modern Japan)

Transformative Fictions: World Literature and Personal Change (Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature)

Modernism and Autobiography

Gertrude Stein: Woman without Qualities

Pushing at Boundaries: Approaches to Contemporary German Women Writers from Karen Duve to Jenny Erpenbeck: 64 (German Monitor, 64)

Twenty-First-Century Fiction: Contemporary British Voices

Understanding Robert Musil (Understanding Modern European and Latin American Literature)

Lorem Ipsum: A Child of Someone (Third Edition)

Dante Hacked: Dante Hackerato

Sollen und Dürfen: Philosophische Grundlagen der ethischen Rechte und Pflichten: 2 (Primary Sources in Phenomenology, 2)

Modelling Written Communication: A New Systems Approach to Modelling in the Social Sciences: 8 (Methodos Series, 8)

Frankie: The most courageous heroine you'll meet this year, from the Sunday Times bestselling author

Hito Steyerl: The city of broken windows

Pedigree et autres romans - leatherbound

The Oxford English Literary History: Volume 12: 1960-2000: The Last of England?

Modus na prostranstve teksta: monografiya

Gender, Collaboration, and Authorship in German Culture: Literary Joint Ventures, 1750-1850 (New Directions in German Studies): 27

A History of Modern French Literature: From the Sixteenth Century to the Twentieth Century

Between Page and Screen: Remaking Literature Through Cinema and Cyberspace (Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics)

Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities: Contexts, Forms, and Practices